Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] 'emerge' request: make --tree not imply --pretend
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:20:11
Message-Id: 449DE47B.9030609@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] 'emerge' request: make --tree not imply --pretend by Dan Corson
1 Dan Corson wrote:
2 > I am sorry, you are indeed correct. What I should have requested is: a
3 > way to have the package list output in non-interactive,
4 > package-installing (that is, not --pretend) execution. It may be that
5 > --pretend is a little over-loaded currently. (I was confused, at any
6 > rate, as you can see.) Thanks, --Dan
7
8 Your request still makes absolutely no sense. What's wrong with running 'emerge
9 -uDpvt world && emerge -uDv world'? Why do you say --pretend is "overloaded"? It
10 only does *one* thing...list packages.
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